Tenerife, the biggest of Spain’s Canary Islands, captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission. Credit score: Accommodates modified Copernicus Sentinel (2021), processed by ESA, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO
The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over Tenerife – the biggest of Spain’s Canary Islands.
Positioned within the Atlantic Ocean, reverse the northwest coast of Africa, the Canary Islands encompass eight most important islands together with Gran Canaria, Lanzarote and La Palma, in addition to many small islands and islets.
Teide Nationwide Park, situated within the middle of the island, is a UNESCO World Heritage Website and contains Mount Teide which dominates the island. Standing at round 3718 m, its summit is the best level on Spanish soil. Nevertheless, a lot of the volcano’s peak is hidden. If measured from the ocean flooring, its peak of 7500 m makes Teide the third-highest volcano on the earth.
Teide is an lively volcano: its most up-to-date eruption occurred in 1909 when a lava circulation buried a lot of the city and harbor of Garachico on the northern coast.
Owing to the island’s numerous topography and distinctive climatic elements, Tenerife has a number of microclimates, which implies that the climate can fluctuate drastically from one a part of the island to the opposite. Climate and local weather are closely influenced by the commerce winds blowing from the northeast for a lot of the 12 months, bringing humidity and precipitation to the north of the island, in addition to to the northern slopes of Mount Teide.
This impact may be clearly seen at nighttime inexperienced colours within the picture displaying vegetation cowl. This band of inexperienced usually follows the boundary of Corona Forestal Pure Park, which covers a complete space of 46 000 hectares.
Most of Tenerife’s inhabitants dwell on the decrease slopes, inside a number of kilometers of the ocean. Round half the inhabitants is in or close to the cosmopolitan capital of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, on the narrower northeast a part of the island, and San Cristóbal de la Laguna, the previous capital.
Different inhabitants dwell on the intensively cultivated slopes close to the northern coast, the place the chief cities are La Orotava, Los Realejos, and Puerto de la Cruz. The south is a well-liked vacation spot the place holidaymakers get pleasure from time on the gorgeous seashores of Costa Adeje.
Tenerife is house to Teide Observatory, situated round 10 km from Santa Cruz de Tenerife on the Izaña mountain, which is house to ESA’s IZN-1 laser ranging station – the primary laser ranging station to be made commercially obtainable. It's right here the place lasers are aimed into Earth’s skies, looking for out satellites and shortly items of house garbage, in addition to measuring their positions and trajectories to forestall catastrophic collisions.
The station, telescope and laser have not too long ago undergone months of testing and commissioning and have handed their ultimate checks with flying colours. Learn extra about ESA’s laser ranging station.
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